0:00:28 > 0:00:30BELL CHIMING
0:00:36 > 0:00:38FOGHORN
0:00:43 > 0:00:48'I used to think that night was a time for women.
0:00:48 > 0:00:52'All day, the docks were raucous with the lives of men.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55'Lightermen and stevedores, dockers and pilots,
0:00:55 > 0:00:59'the sailors and the drivers of the trains.
0:00:59 > 0:01:05'In the smallest hours, only the river's voice was heard.
0:01:06 > 0:01:08'Only women were awake.'
0:01:08 > 0:01:11- KETTLE WHISTLES - 'Men slept.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14'Mostly.'
0:01:14 > 0:01:17WOMAN SCREAMS AND CRIES
0:01:17 > 0:01:20WOMAN SCREAMS
0:01:23 > 0:01:25Are you sure you're a midwife? You don't half look young.
0:01:25 > 0:01:29Don't worry, Ingrid. You're quite safe.
0:01:29 > 0:01:33INGRID GROANS AND SOBS
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'll...kill...him!
0:01:37 > 0:01:40I'll bloody kill him when I'm done!
0:01:40 > 0:01:42SCREAMS AND CRIES
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Short breaths.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47GASPING
0:01:47 > 0:01:48There.
0:01:48 > 0:01:52'She wouldn't kill him. No mother ever did.
0:01:52 > 0:01:56'She would only curse his name, and say there'd never be a next time.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58- BABY CRYING - 'And she would mean it.
0:01:58 > 0:02:00'And there always was.'
0:02:00 > 0:02:05# O God, make speed to save us
0:02:05 > 0:02:10# O Lord, make haste to help us
0:02:10 > 0:02:15# Glory be to the Father and to the Son
0:02:15 > 0:02:19# And to the Holy Ghost
0:02:19 > 0:02:26# As it was in the beginning Is now, and ever shall be
0:02:26 > 0:02:29# World without end, amen
0:02:29 > 0:02:34# Praise ye the Lord
0:02:35 > 0:02:40# The Lord's name be praised
0:02:42 > 0:02:46# Have mercy upon me O God
0:02:46 > 0:02:50# After Thy great goodness
0:02:50 > 0:02:56# According to the multitude of Thy mercies
0:02:56 > 0:02:59# Do away mine offences
0:02:59 > 0:03:04# Wash me throughly from my wickedness... #
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Zakir, I'm with someone.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09# ..And cleanse me from my sin... #
0:03:09 > 0:03:11SEAGULLS CRY
0:03:11 > 0:03:15LOW CHATTER
0:03:26 > 0:03:29Take him to the Crystal Room.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40BIRDSONG OUTSIDE
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Oh, she's a bit of all right.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50I'm going to call her Dawn.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52It's a beautiful name.
0:03:53 > 0:03:56- Ah, hug, hug. - BABY GURGLES
0:03:56 > 0:04:00- That's it, nicely. Good girl. - BABY CRIES
0:04:00 > 0:04:03- Baby.- Baby, yeah.
0:04:03 > 0:04:07COINS CLINK
0:04:09 > 0:04:10Don't short-change me.
0:04:10 > 0:04:15It's eight bob, if I bring you inside.
0:04:15 > 0:04:18FOOTSTEPS
0:04:20 > 0:04:23Thought he'd dropped off on the job.
0:04:23 > 0:04:27Tell you what, some of them lascars don't half rub off on you.
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Mary! You've got one in the oven.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37Is it any wonder?
0:04:44 > 0:04:46There's things you can do, Mare.
0:04:47 > 0:04:49Things you'll have to do.
0:04:51 > 0:04:52And what if I won't?
0:04:53 > 0:04:57You can't keep it. They won't let you.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01FOGHORN
0:05:03 > 0:05:06'I had entered a house in the dead of night,
0:05:06 > 0:05:10'and emerged into sunshine, leaving a new life behind,
0:05:10 > 0:05:14'and I wouldn't have changed my job for all the world.'
0:05:16 > 0:05:19Oh, hello, Jenny! Up all night again?
0:05:19 > 0:05:21Mrs B kept you a kipper.
0:05:21 > 0:05:23I'd be quick, if I were you, or Fred will have it.
0:05:23 > 0:05:26I heard that, and I hate kippers.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29I tried smoking 'em once. It's a mug's game.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32Flat tyre.
0:05:32 > 0:05:34Three advance delivery packs,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37one booking-in and two final home visits.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40- Nurse Lee! How is Mrs Mason?- A little girl, Sister. No complications.
0:05:40 > 0:05:44Good. You'll have to see to Sister Bernadette's list later.
0:05:44 > 0:05:46She's been seconded to the hospital today.
0:05:46 > 0:05:48PHONE RINGING
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54- Short-staffed again! - The new trainee is on her way.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57I can't deny I'm looking forward to an extra pair of hands.
0:05:57 > 0:06:01Doreen Riley. She's the twins case in Quebec Street.
0:06:01 > 0:06:04We don't need an extra pair of hands. We need an octopus.
0:06:04 > 0:06:07When I get back from Mrs Riley, I'll contact the aquarium(!)
0:06:07 > 0:06:13In the meantime the new girl's details are on here.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15BELL CHIMES
0:06:18 > 0:06:21Ah! Camilla Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne?
0:06:21 > 0:06:23- Yes. - Come in.
0:06:23 > 0:06:26I generally answer to Chummy. My pa used to say,
0:06:26 > 0:06:29"Long dogs need short names."
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Mm. Follow me. And mind your head.
0:06:32 > 0:06:39I understand you qualified by a whisker, Nurse Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41I did pass. It was a bit of a scrape.
0:06:41 > 0:06:45Before that I was nursing for five years, and, well...
0:06:45 > 0:06:48Come on, inside.
0:06:48 > 0:06:50Do you need me to go through this piece by piece?
0:06:50 > 0:06:53No, not remotely. What's that?
0:06:53 > 0:06:56- It's an enema nozzle. - It's made of glass.
0:06:56 > 0:06:58Do you break things?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00No.
0:07:00 > 0:07:04- And are all your dresses pink? - I do have another, in eau de nil.
0:07:04 > 0:07:06I bet you look a picture in that too.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08Nurse Lee!
0:07:33 > 0:07:35KNOCK AT DOOR
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Uniforms.
0:07:39 > 0:07:41Standard pale blue. Two.
0:07:41 > 0:07:44- I found some in the airing cupboard.- All girls together.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46That's what we used to say at school.
0:07:46 > 0:07:51I could never bear all that fussing and flapping under dressing capes. Ha-ha.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I've always been a longshanks.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57Even as a child in India, I was always taller than my brothers.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Poor old Mater, she used to be in tears,
0:08:00 > 0:08:03but my ayah just sewed flounces at the bottom of my frocks.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07It would look a bit rum round the hem of a nurse's outfit.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13Oh, I can't move my arms.
0:08:13 > 0:08:15Those are the biggest size.
0:08:17 > 0:08:19Oh, well. Nil desperandum.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28The rotating handle is delicately mechanised.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31The cogs will be deranged if it's pounded out of rhythm.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35Oh, don't worry, I've got the measure of this little warhorse.
0:08:35 > 0:08:38I was at the Royal School of Needlework
0:08:38 > 0:08:40before I turned to nursing.
0:08:41 > 0:08:45Have you thought of French knots, to make that jolly fellow's hair?
0:08:45 > 0:08:48I intend to furnish it with a beret.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51- The scalp will not be visible to view.- Oh.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56# Embrace me
0:08:57 > 0:09:01# Embrace me
0:09:03 > 0:09:04SHE SINGS ALONG
0:09:06 > 0:09:08# Embrace me
0:09:08 > 0:09:15# My sweet embraceable you
0:09:18 > 0:09:22# Embrace me
0:09:22 > 0:09:32# My irreplaceable yo-o-ou
0:09:32 > 0:09:37# Just one look at you
0:09:37 > 0:09:40# My heart grew... #
0:09:40 > 0:09:42MUSIC PLAYS FAINTLY
0:09:48 > 0:09:50STAIR CREAKS
0:09:53 > 0:09:59# ..Bring out the gypsy in me
0:10:02 > 0:10:05MUFFLED CONVERSATION
0:10:17 > 0:10:20DOOR CREAKS
0:10:28 > 0:10:32# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ah! #
0:10:32 > 0:10:35I thank you and I love you all!
0:10:38 > 0:10:42I wish I could make my own patterns. I'd save a bomb on clothes.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45Yes. I've loved clothes ever since the New Look.
0:10:45 > 0:10:47New Look's old hat, darling.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50Aren't you bored of ironing all those layers?
0:10:50 > 0:10:54Only wearing four tomorrow night. No room for six in the Royal Festival Hall.
0:10:54 > 0:10:57Another concert? On your own?
0:10:57 > 0:10:59Yes. Rachmaninoff.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Oh! Oh. I've chopped Princess Margaret's head off.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04I was cutting out the sleeve.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07She'll be giving me one of her hard cold stares.
0:11:07 > 0:11:09I'm sure she'll forgive you. I think she looks fun.
0:11:09 > 0:11:13Oh, she's frightfully vivacious when she's had a gin.
0:11:16 > 0:11:18Not that I know her well.
0:11:18 > 0:11:22No, I haven't really seen her since Pa's investiture.
0:11:22 > 0:11:26- Investiture? - Yes, he was just...
0:11:26 > 0:11:29Well, he was knighted for, er... services to the viceroy.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32I'd keep that from Sister Evangelina.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- Why?- She grew up drinking out of jam jars.
0:11:35 > 0:11:38It's made her a bit of an inverted snob.
0:11:38 > 0:11:40- DOOR OPENS FRED:- Right, young madam.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42Bicycles.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45I've got a very nice Rival of Norwich, with a lightweight frame.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50Or a Rover Imperial I reckon's come off the ark. The choice is yours.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Oh, I don't need a bicycle. Thanks awfully.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55Shanks's pony will suffice for me.
0:11:55 > 0:11:58Darling, you won't last five minutes on shanks's pony.
0:11:58 > 0:12:00We cover eight square miles.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02You can ride a bike?
0:12:04 > 0:12:08I can ride a horse. That can't be so very different, surely?
0:12:08 > 0:12:12Once somebody's learned to ride a bicycle,
0:12:12 > 0:12:15- they never, ever forget. - Absolutely.
0:12:15 > 0:12:18You'll have to do this once. It's like learning to smoke
0:12:18 > 0:12:21- or having your ears pierced. - Quite.
0:12:21 > 0:12:23Ready? Oh! Oh, gosh, erm...
0:12:23 > 0:12:25- Buckle down. - Er... Oh.
0:12:25 > 0:12:28- All right. - Yes, feet on.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30- And go. - Oh, um...
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- Keep going. - You want to tie her to our go-kart?
0:12:33 > 0:12:35- You want to button your lip. - I'm sure he means well.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37LAUGHTER
0:12:37 > 0:12:41- Feet.- What? - Feet.- Yes.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43Feet! Work your feet, Chummy.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- Feet.- Yes. Oh! - Down.
0:12:46 > 0:12:50Pedal up, pedal down.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52Oh, no! Sorry. Sorry. BIKE BELL RINGS
0:12:52 > 0:12:55It's just this alternate body parts business.
0:12:55 > 0:12:58Feet, you know, doing different things.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03One fears there is something in her that is misaligned.
0:13:03 > 0:13:06One suspects a planetary influence.
0:13:06 > 0:13:09CHILDREN: Pedal up! Pedal down!
0:13:09 > 0:13:12The East End'll eat her for breakfast.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19TRAIN WHISTLE
0:13:43 > 0:13:44Miss?
0:13:44 > 0:13:48Miss? Could you change a five-pound note for me?
0:13:48 > 0:13:52A five-pound note? No, I'm sorry. I can't.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56- What about that cafe over there? - I daren't. They'll think I stole it.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Would you go in and change it for me?
0:13:59 > 0:14:01I'm sorry.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03Please!
0:14:03 > 0:14:05I've not eaten today.
0:14:05 > 0:14:07Nor yesterday.
0:14:11 > 0:14:13Well, I suppose we could go in together.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16We could get you something to eat.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20I could pay using the banknote, so they'll think it's mine.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35First dinner I ever had in England was like this.
0:14:35 > 0:14:38That pie was in silver paper too.
0:14:38 > 0:14:41It was in the transport cafe. That's near Liverpool.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43You're not from Liverpool, though?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46County Mayo.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Then Dublin, after Dadda died.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52That was where our luck ran out.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55And Mam fell in love with the drink.
0:14:57 > 0:15:01I don't like it when people pry. I shouldn't pry myself. I'm sorry.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03She'll be on the cold tea and meths by now.
0:15:04 > 0:15:08She used to tell me the story of Dick Whittington and his cat,
0:15:08 > 0:15:13and how they came to London and he heard the bells.
0:15:13 > 0:15:17I thought, "What sort of eejit goes to make his fortune and takes his cat with him?"
0:15:20 > 0:15:24When she took a man to live with us, I knew I'd have to leave.
0:15:24 > 0:15:28I thought, "I'll take a leaf out of Dick Whittington's book.
0:15:28 > 0:15:29"I'm just not taking any pets."
0:15:30 > 0:15:34I thought the boat went from Dublin straight to London.
0:15:34 > 0:15:36I didn't know there was any other city.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38And I hitched a ride from Liverpool docks.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41It was the driver who bought me the pie.
0:15:43 > 0:15:45Did he take advantage of you?
0:15:47 > 0:15:50I like your scarf.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52It's from Paris.
0:15:52 > 0:15:54Is that what the writing on it says?
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Did the lorry driver take advantage of you?
0:15:59 > 0:16:01No.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03He was the last good Englishman I met.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07It's just...
0:16:08 > 0:16:11- ..I can see you're expecting a baby. - Can you?
0:16:11 > 0:16:13I've a trained eye. I'm a midwife.
0:16:13 > 0:16:15You're not old enough.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17- I'm older than you. - Sorry, girls.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20I'm closing me till. That's two and nine, please.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25I can't change that. Haven't you got anything smaller?
0:16:25 > 0:16:29If you can't change this banknote, we can't pay for the meal.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32Which, of course, has now been eaten.
0:16:36 > 0:16:39THEY GIGGLE
0:16:40 > 0:16:44Four pounds seventeen and thruppence.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52Is there somewhere you can go?
0:16:52 > 0:16:55There's the place I used to work.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59But, if I go there, they'll hurt me.
0:17:02 > 0:17:06People like you are supposed to help people like me.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16Come on.
0:17:21 > 0:17:23I can't wake Sister Julienne now.
0:17:23 > 0:17:26The nuns get up to pray at half past four.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28I hate half past four.
0:17:28 > 0:17:31It's cold, even in the summer.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34Will she let me stay?
0:17:34 > 0:17:36She'll know where you can stay.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40I thought you were one of my sort.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43Only of the grand kind.
0:17:43 > 0:17:48It was your lovely coat, and the way you let it swing when you were walking.
0:17:48 > 0:17:53There's a girl called Charmaine in the place where I was living with Zakir.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55She said she was going to go up west
0:17:55 > 0:17:58and wear white gloves and a touch-me-not expression.
0:17:58 > 0:18:02She probably thought she could look like you.
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Mary, is Zakir the father of your child?
0:18:08 > 0:18:10I don't think so.
0:18:11 > 0:18:15It's such a long time since he wanted me.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17And some nights I've been with three men.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Even four.
0:18:21 > 0:18:24God love your innocence, Nurse Jenny Lee.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Which of us is the oldest now?
0:18:32 > 0:18:35SEAGULLS CRY OUTSIDE
0:18:50 > 0:18:51You're not still up?
0:18:51 > 0:18:55Bit of an argument with the bust darts.
0:18:55 > 0:18:57Night.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00Night.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22SHOUTING AND CHEERING
0:19:25 > 0:19:27- Pedal up. - Up.
0:19:27 > 0:19:31- Pedal down. - Down.
0:19:31 > 0:19:32- Pedal up. - Up.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35- Pedal down... - Getting it! Getting it!
0:19:35 > 0:19:39- Bravo, Chummy! - CHILDREN: # Champion the Wonder Horse!
0:19:39 > 0:19:42- # Champion the Wonder horse... # - I'm so proud of you, Chummy!
0:19:42 > 0:19:46# ..Like a streak of lightnin' flashing 'cross the sky... #
0:19:46 > 0:19:49- Well done, Chummy! - Oh!
0:19:49 > 0:19:52# ..You'll hear about her everywhere you go... #
0:19:52 > 0:19:53Oh! Oh, no! Aah!
0:19:53 > 0:19:57LAUGHTER
0:19:57 > 0:20:00- Move out of the way, please. - Are you all right?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03SOBBING
0:20:07 > 0:20:10I'm not going out of that door!
0:20:10 > 0:20:12I'm safe here!
0:20:13 > 0:20:16You'll be safe with Father Joe at Wellclose Square.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18He's set up a refuge for girls like you.
0:20:18 > 0:20:22I'm not going out! Someone will see me.
0:20:22 > 0:20:24You're very afraid of something, aren't you, Mary?
0:20:24 > 0:20:28MARY SNIFFS
0:20:28 > 0:20:32If you can tell us what it is, you may be able to help us help you.
0:20:37 > 0:20:40There was a girl with a baby in her.
0:20:41 > 0:20:44And they sent for a woman to come.
0:20:45 > 0:20:50She had a hook, like the one you knit with.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53I had to help to hold her down.
0:20:53 > 0:20:57And there was blood, like in a butcher's.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Did the girl lose the baby?
0:21:04 > 0:21:08There was a chamberpot in the corner of our room.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12It had violets printed on the china.
0:21:13 > 0:21:17And I saw the baby in there, no bigger than my hand.
0:21:17 > 0:21:20My baby's bigger than my hand now.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23I can feel it underneath my heart.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28Mary, we're not a nursing home, or a clinic.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30MARY SOBS
0:21:30 > 0:21:32This is where the midwives live.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35We look after women in the community.
0:21:35 > 0:21:40When you go to Father Joe's, you'll be in the community
0:21:40 > 0:21:43and we'll look after you.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52I'll go if Jenny comes.
0:21:58 > 0:22:02Fred's mending the dent on your mudguard. You've got gravel in that.
0:22:02 > 0:22:04Botheration.
0:22:04 > 0:22:08You are going to have to get cycling under your belt.
0:22:08 > 0:22:10You'll have to find time for it,
0:22:10 > 0:22:13just like you've got to find time for your extra study.
0:22:13 > 0:22:17I know, Sister. I know I barely scratched a pass at my exams. But I won't give up.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21If you can't serve your patients, you're a hindrance, not a help,
0:22:21 > 0:22:23and you'll have to be replaced.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25But I need district experience.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Without it, I can't go to Africa.
0:22:27 > 0:22:31What do you want to go there for? Aren't we good enough for you?
0:22:31 > 0:22:35I feel I've been called to work in Africa by God.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39- Do you feel called to the religious life?- Oh, gosh, no.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42One hopes there might be some sort of a chap along the way.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44I'm quite happy just to be a missionary.
0:22:44 > 0:22:49But when I close my eyes to pray, I see all these little black faces.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52You don't have to up sticks to Africa to see them.
0:22:52 > 0:22:56Just go a bit nearer the docks. It's not that far...by bicycle.
0:23:14 > 0:23:15That's the place I used to work.
0:23:15 > 0:23:18It's all right. I'm not taking you there.
0:23:18 > 0:23:20Yes, you are!
0:23:20 > 0:23:23No! You are! No, no, no!
0:23:32 > 0:23:34Do you know him?
0:23:36 > 0:23:37No.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54Tea for three.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10I hope you've no objection to fig rolls.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12Never had one. Are they foreign?
0:24:12 > 0:24:16Probably. I never reckoned they were up to much.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22They taste like treacle wrapped in a doormat.
0:24:32 > 0:24:33I'm not a fallen woman.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38No.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41I had a boyfriend.
0:24:41 > 0:24:43His name was Zakir.
0:24:43 > 0:24:48He took me in, when he found me eating bread left for the birds.
0:24:51 > 0:24:53But he worked for his uncle.
0:24:54 > 0:24:56And I had to work for his uncle too.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00We understand that you were forced.
0:25:02 > 0:25:04There is no shame in it.
0:25:04 > 0:25:06There isn't for the men.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12It's a pimp's trick, old as the hills.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15A young man finds a vulnerable girl,
0:25:15 > 0:25:18lures her to bed with a kiss and kind words.
0:25:18 > 0:25:23By the time he's finished with her, she'd do anything for him.
0:25:23 > 0:25:25But don't the girls have any sense of danger?
0:25:25 > 0:25:28They've usually been in danger all their lives.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32If not from violence, then from hunger and disease.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35It's hard to imagine, I grant you, if you've never lived like that.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38I work in the East End, Father. I know about poverty.
0:25:38 > 0:25:40Nurse, I don't think you do.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44Poverty isn't bad housing, dirty clothing, families of ten.
0:25:44 > 0:25:48It's never having been loved, or even respected.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Not knowing the difference between love and abuse,
0:25:51 > 0:25:53a kiss that wasn't down payment on a blow.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02I'm sorry.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04You must think me very ignorant.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09I think you're very fortunate.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11And there's no need to apologise for that.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15# O God, make speed to save us
0:26:15 > 0:26:20# O Lord, make haste to help us
0:26:21 > 0:26:25# Praise ye the Lord
0:26:26 > 0:26:32# The Lord's name be praised
0:26:32 > 0:26:37# Have mercy upon me, O God
0:26:37 > 0:26:41# After thy great goodness
0:26:42 > 0:26:47# According to the multitude of thy mercies
0:26:47 > 0:26:51# Do away mine offences
0:26:52 > 0:26:57# Wash me thoroughly from my wickedness
0:26:57 > 0:27:02# And cleanse me from my sin... #
0:27:05 > 0:27:07MEN CHATTERING
0:27:13 > 0:27:17- What happened to the Wonder Horse? - Will you put a sock in it?
0:27:17 > 0:27:20You've a voice like you've swallowed a foghorn! Good afternoon, Nurse.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Afternoon.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24Excuse me.
0:27:25 > 0:27:28Size of her. She could pull a brewer's dray.
0:27:34 > 0:27:38BABIES CRYING
0:27:38 > 0:27:41I hope everyone's brought their sample today.
0:27:41 > 0:27:44Oh, not the syrup tin again, Mrs Teeman.
0:27:44 > 0:27:47It plays havoc with the sugar test.
0:27:55 > 0:27:59Ah, good afternoon. Or is it good evening?
0:28:00 > 0:28:05You're with Dr Turner. Cubicle on the end.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07Hello, Brenda!
0:28:07 > 0:28:09Never thought I'd be bumping into you here!
0:28:09 > 0:28:11I remarried. Two years ago.
0:28:11 > 0:28:14Well, that's a poke in the eye for Adolf, innit?
0:28:17 > 0:28:21How did you lose your first husband again?
0:28:21 > 0:28:24In the Blitz. When the sugar works caught fire.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28Oh, will I ever forget it? The gutters ran with fudge for a week.
0:28:28 > 0:28:32- You're happy, I presume? - Delighted. Aren't you?
0:28:32 > 0:28:35Ah, I come round to the idea. I was disgusted at first.
0:28:35 > 0:28:37It don't seem right, does it?
0:28:37 > 0:28:40Mother of the bride being in the family way.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42Her wedding's in a fortnight.
0:28:42 > 0:28:45I've had to buy one of those trapeze-line coats.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Mrs Brenda McEntee to see Dr Turner.
0:28:50 > 0:28:53- Good luck, love. - Thank you.
0:28:58 > 0:29:00Bowels been normal and regular?
0:29:00 > 0:29:02Yeah.
0:29:02 > 0:29:04- Any vomiting or nausea? - No. That's stopped.
0:29:04 > 0:29:08Any swelling of the ankles? Any fainting or dizziness?
0:29:08 > 0:29:10No.
0:29:10 > 0:29:15Then we'll examine your tummy. Mrs McEntee had rickets as a child,
0:29:15 > 0:29:17and has a skeletal malformation as a result,
0:29:17 > 0:29:19including what's known as a rachitic pelvis.
0:29:19 > 0:29:22- Have you come across it before? - No, I haven't.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Mrs McEntee is a rare bird.
0:29:25 > 0:29:29She was deprived of sunlight and malnourished as a child.
0:29:29 > 0:29:32Rickets was a disease of poverty.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35Now we have the welfare state it's become a disease of the past.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39As are the problems of pregnancy she experienced in the past.
0:29:39 > 0:29:41SOBBING
0:29:41 > 0:29:45Now, come along, Mrs McEntee.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48I've been coming along! I've...I've been trying to be brave.
0:29:48 > 0:29:52But I had the quickening this week.
0:29:52 > 0:29:54I've felt it move. Like the others moved.
0:29:54 > 0:29:57SOBBING
0:29:57 > 0:29:59And I lost every one of them.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Mrs McEntee had four obstructed labours, many years ago.
0:30:05 > 0:30:06Her babies were stillborn.
0:30:06 > 0:30:11But we can refer her for surgery now, all free of charge.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14There's no need to attempt a natural childbirth.
0:30:14 > 0:30:15SOBBING
0:30:20 > 0:30:22I'm... I'm sorry.
0:30:22 > 0:30:27It's just that...that, well, things come back, you know.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Did you hear Doctor, Brenda?
0:30:29 > 0:30:33This a brand-new baby, and a splendid chance for you.
0:30:33 > 0:30:37We're all here to help, and Doctor's going to help most of all.
0:30:37 > 0:30:39I... I know.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42I... I'm making a show of myself.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44Not at all.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48Now, let's start by letting him look at that old tummy.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57Look out!
0:30:57 > 0:30:59BABIES CRYING
0:31:03 > 0:31:08I hope you take greater care of the babies.
0:31:08 > 0:31:11They're not quite so easily replaced.
0:31:24 > 0:31:26Well done.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29You made Brenda McEntee feel safe.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32- Magic handkerchief. Never known to fail.- No.
0:31:32 > 0:31:36You made her feel safe. It's the mark of a good nurse.
0:31:36 > 0:31:38A midwife too.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42Everything else is just mechanics. You'll soon get the hang of it.
0:31:42 > 0:31:45Do you think so?
0:31:45 > 0:31:47Yes, I do.
0:31:48 > 0:31:52MUSIC: "See The Pyramids Along The Nile" by The Duprees
0:32:06 > 0:32:13# See the pyramids along the Nile
0:32:13 > 0:32:20# Watch the sun rise on a tropic isle
0:32:20 > 0:32:27# Just remember, darling, all the while
0:32:27 > 0:32:34# You belong to me
0:32:34 > 0:32:41# See the marketplace in old Algiers
0:32:41 > 0:32:48# Send me photographs and souvenirs
0:32:48 > 0:32:55# But remember when a dream appears
0:32:55 > 0:33:02# You belong to me
0:33:02 > 0:33:05# I'll be so alone... #
0:33:05 > 0:33:08We like to hold refresher classes when we can.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10Some complications come up only rarely,
0:33:10 > 0:33:13and it's as well to stay on top of all the theory.
0:33:13 > 0:33:14Now.
0:33:14 > 0:33:19Approximately 3 to 4% of babies arriving at term are born breech.
0:33:19 > 0:33:23That is to say, the buttocks will be the presenting part.
0:33:23 > 0:33:27Didn't Shakespeare describe Richard III as being breech?
0:33:27 > 0:33:31Something about him coming into the world with his legs forward?
0:33:31 > 0:33:33In Poplar they call it arriving arse-first.
0:33:33 > 0:33:35SNORTS
0:33:35 > 0:33:37Did anyone see any breech births during training?
0:33:37 > 0:33:41- I saw two.- I saw one, the second of a set of twins.
0:33:41 > 0:33:43Nurse Browne?
0:33:43 > 0:33:47- Oh, um...I did and I didn't. - Oh?
0:33:47 > 0:33:50All tickety-boo to start with, then after the legs descended,
0:33:50 > 0:33:54the midwife wrapped the baby in a towel and let its body hang there.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57It was dangling. Still with its head inside the birth canal.
0:33:57 > 0:34:01Yes. That is done to increase the flexion of the head.
0:34:01 > 0:34:03It increases the risk of asphyxiation.
0:34:03 > 0:34:05It is a showman's trick, in my view.
0:34:05 > 0:34:08- How long was it allowed to hang? - I don't know.
0:34:08 > 0:34:12I passed out. Came to face down on the lino in the corridor.
0:34:12 > 0:34:17Nurse Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne!
0:34:17 > 0:34:21According to the duty log, you were late for your first three appointments,
0:34:21 > 0:34:24and missed the last two altogether!
0:34:24 > 0:34:26Chummy wrote those entries in the log herself!
0:34:26 > 0:34:30- As if it's something to be proud of? - Chummy has to walk everywhere.
0:34:30 > 0:34:32Then why isn't she doing something about it?
0:34:32 > 0:34:36"Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks!
0:34:36 > 0:34:40"Rage! Blow! Ye cataracts and hurricanes, spout".
0:34:40 > 0:34:41Sister Monica Joan...
0:34:41 > 0:34:45I refer to the fact... that her nose is running.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Oh. Here you are.
0:34:48 > 0:34:51You need to have more respect for your patients.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54If you can't be trusted to turn up on time,
0:34:54 > 0:34:56you can't be trusted to do your own deliveries,
0:34:56 > 0:34:58no matter how much studying you do.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20I love it every time it kicks.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24All I can think is, "Please let it be born strong."
0:35:24 > 0:35:28- Everything else can wait till later. - Quite right. You need to keep rested
0:35:28 > 0:35:30and eat as much as you can.
0:35:31 > 0:35:34That's it. Perfect.
0:35:35 > 0:35:39I could get used to perfect. I can't get used to them fig rolls.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42They'll do you good. They've got fruit in.
0:35:42 > 0:35:47The night I met Zakir, he gave me chocolate cake with fruit in.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51He'd given me wine to drink, and I hadn't liked it.
0:35:51 > 0:35:54The cake was supposed to make the wine taste sweeter,
0:35:54 > 0:35:57but it only made it taste more sour.
0:35:57 > 0:36:01You can open the curtains now, Mary. I've finished examining you.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05It was after that that he took me to the Crystal Room.
0:36:09 > 0:36:12I knew what men did to women.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15I'd had it done to me.
0:36:17 > 0:36:20And...I didn't think it could be beautiful...
0:36:22 > 0:36:25..or that it could happen on a bed with golden sheets.
0:36:25 > 0:36:28- Mary. - He said afterwards,
0:36:28 > 0:36:32"Did you think anything like that could ever come to you?"
0:36:32 > 0:36:35As if he knew I'd never known it could.
0:36:35 > 0:36:37Mary.
0:36:37 > 0:36:42What Zakir did to you was obscene, not beautiful.
0:36:42 > 0:36:44You shouldn't speak of him. You shouldn't think of him.
0:36:44 > 0:36:46I can't help it.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50He's standing in the street.
0:36:54 > 0:36:58He comes and stands there every afternoon.
0:37:01 > 0:37:05I don't care how many calls I have to make or how far we have to send her.
0:37:05 > 0:37:09But I am going to get her out of Stepney.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12She's younger than most, she's not sharp in the head,
0:37:12 > 0:37:15and she's valuable to them on both those counts.
0:37:17 > 0:37:19Right.
0:37:21 > 0:37:23'A place was found for Mary
0:37:23 > 0:37:27'at a Catholic mother-and-baby home in Kent.
0:37:27 > 0:37:29'She would be cared for there,
0:37:29 > 0:37:32'with her child delivered in the cottage hospital.'
0:37:32 > 0:37:36Thank you for being my friend, Jenny Lee.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55Well done, Chummy!
0:37:55 > 0:37:59We're going to go straight ahead and turn right into Lisbon Street.
0:37:59 > 0:38:02- Don't forget your hand signals. - I just stick out my arm, don't I?
0:38:02 > 0:38:05Medal for that woman!
0:38:05 > 0:38:07Slow down now, Chum!
0:38:08 > 0:38:10How?
0:38:10 > 0:38:13- Lean in as you turn. - I don't know how to turn.
0:38:13 > 0:38:15I've forgotten how to turn!
0:38:15 > 0:38:17THEY SQUEAL
0:38:17 > 0:38:19Brake! Brake, Nurse!
0:38:19 > 0:38:21BELLS RING
0:38:21 > 0:38:23- What happened? - They were going too fast.
0:38:23 > 0:38:26GROANS
0:38:26 > 0:38:28All right? That's it.
0:38:28 > 0:38:31You all right, nurse?
0:38:31 > 0:38:32I think so.
0:38:32 > 0:38:37All right, darling? All right, take it easy. Anything hurt?
0:38:37 > 0:38:39Oh, dear, I'm such a fool. Sorry.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41Just take a minute.
0:38:48 > 0:38:54First, I'm glad that none of you are more seriously injured,
0:38:54 > 0:38:57and, second, that you aren't all up before the magistrates.
0:38:57 > 0:39:01How did you persuade the policeman not to charge you?
0:39:01 > 0:39:04Assaulting an officer is a criminal offence.
0:39:04 > 0:39:08I can't remember. I just tried to say it as nicely as I could.
0:39:08 > 0:39:13"Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast,
0:39:13 > 0:39:20"Warm breath, light whisper, tender semi-tone."
0:39:20 > 0:39:25Not even the softness of the breast or any other portion of the form
0:39:25 > 0:39:28helped to turn away the policeman's wrath.
0:39:28 > 0:39:29I don't care if they did.
0:39:29 > 0:39:33Nurse Fortescue-Cholmeley-Browne has got off scot-free,
0:39:33 > 0:39:36we're short-staffed and our patients will suffer.
0:39:36 > 0:39:40Nurse Browne was diagnosed with shock and mild concussion.
0:39:40 > 0:39:46After bed rest, she will recover and then she'll be attending deliveries by herself.
0:39:46 > 0:39:47She's not competent!
0:39:47 > 0:39:51Cycling aside, she's competent enough.
0:39:51 > 0:39:55She is a qualified midwife and a highly experienced nurse.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57There's experience and experience.
0:39:57 > 0:40:00What experience has she got of ordinary people?
0:40:00 > 0:40:03- What experience have they got of her?- They like her.
0:40:03 > 0:40:06They laugh at her.
0:40:06 > 0:40:09And they've every right. She's no better than a tourist.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12She's using them for her own ends.
0:40:12 > 0:40:15The East End's nothing but a stepping stone to her.
0:40:15 > 0:40:18What if it's the stepping stone to her life's work?
0:40:18 > 0:40:20This is our life's work.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23We don't need Madame Lah-di-dah looking down on us
0:40:23 > 0:40:27from her...her great height!
0:40:27 > 0:40:29Nurse Browne!
0:40:29 > 0:40:33- What are you doing out of bed? - I've been to the off-licence.
0:40:33 > 0:40:37To buy some whisky for the policeman.
0:40:37 > 0:40:42I asked if they had the Glenlivet, but they'd never heard of it.
0:40:45 > 0:40:47BIRDSONG
0:40:50 > 0:40:52LOW CHATTER
0:40:56 > 0:41:01# Just one look at you
0:41:01 > 0:41:07# My heart goes dipsy in me... #
0:41:10 > 0:41:12I called her Kathleen.
0:41:14 > 0:41:16It means pure.
0:41:25 > 0:41:28It's a shame you gave that Scotch to the bobby.
0:41:28 > 0:41:31You could have done with a nip tonight.
0:41:34 > 0:41:38Do you suppose this is how fighter pilots felt, waiting for the call to fly?
0:41:38 > 0:41:41I dunno. I was an Army man myself. Pioneer Corps.
0:41:41 > 0:41:43Gosh. One of the glamour boys?
0:41:43 > 0:41:47Well, I specialised in lavatories.
0:41:47 > 0:41:49It's a myth that an army marches on its stomach.
0:41:49 > 0:41:52What a fighting man needs is a top-notch khazi...
0:41:52 > 0:41:55- PHONE RINGS - ..and not to panic.
0:41:55 > 0:41:59Like Monty said at El Alamein,
0:41:59 > 0:42:01"It can be done, and it will be done!"
0:42:07 > 0:42:09Nonnatus House. Midwife speaking.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13My daughter's waters went when they cut the wedding cake!
0:42:13 > 0:42:16- Is the lady in labour the bride?- Bride's mother.
0:42:16 > 0:42:21I'd hurry. This is her fifth, and she don't half have 'em fast!
0:42:21 > 0:42:23I looked in the book.
0:42:23 > 0:42:28She's two weeks before her due date so nothing's been sent on ahead!
0:42:33 > 0:42:34Thank you.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38Oh, you put a nip of something in it.
0:42:38 > 0:42:41- Army trick. - Before going into battle?
0:42:41 > 0:42:44Before going into the other ranks' latrines.
0:42:57 > 0:43:00# Oh, the hokey-cokey!
0:43:00 > 0:43:04# Oh, the hokey-cokey!
0:43:04 > 0:43:08# Oh, the hokey-cokey!
0:43:08 > 0:43:11# Knees bent, arms stretched, rah, rah, rah!
0:43:11 > 0:43:16# You put your left leg in! You put your left leg out!
0:43:16 > 0:43:19# In! Out! In! Out! Shake it all about!
0:43:19 > 0:43:22# You do the hokey-cokey and you turn around
0:43:22 > 0:43:27# That's what it's all about!
0:43:27 > 0:43:28# ..Oh, the hokey-cokey... #
0:43:28 > 0:43:32- Watch it!- Look out!
0:43:32 > 0:43:34Get out the way!
0:43:34 > 0:43:37LOUD CLATTERING
0:43:37 > 0:43:40Here! I will not have you giving cheek!
0:43:40 > 0:43:43Especially to the nurse who's come to help your mum.
0:43:43 > 0:43:46Here! What you walloping him for?
0:43:46 > 0:43:47Disrespect.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49Come here.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53I know your wallops. You're too soft on him.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58The midwife had a moustache.
0:43:58 > 0:44:00SNORTS
0:44:00 > 0:44:02She kept bending down between my knees
0:44:02 > 0:44:05and looking where I don't like being looked at.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09I yelled a little bit.
0:44:10 > 0:44:14She kept on saying, "Nearly over.
0:44:14 > 0:44:17"Nearly over."
0:44:17 > 0:44:20And all I kept thinking was, "It's nearly starting.
0:44:21 > 0:44:24"I'm nearly a mam."
0:44:25 > 0:44:28What was it like when you saw her face?
0:44:30 > 0:44:32Like I'd been missing her my whole life.
0:44:34 > 0:44:37SINGING OUTSIDE
0:44:37 > 0:44:38Aah! Oh!
0:44:38 > 0:44:40SOBBING
0:44:40 > 0:44:42That's the girl! Let it rip.
0:44:42 > 0:44:46They're singing Old MacDonald now so no-one can hear you.
0:44:46 > 0:44:49Now, after your contraction, I'll carry out an examination,
0:44:49 > 0:44:51and we'll see how close to delivery you are.
0:44:51 > 0:44:54I hope it's born before the party ends.
0:44:54 > 0:44:57Be a right lark, making an announcement!
0:44:57 > 0:44:59I don't want no attention being drawn to this, Mum!
0:44:59 > 0:45:02I'm 42. It makes me look loose.
0:45:02 > 0:45:04- It makes him indoors look loose. - Oh!
0:45:04 > 0:45:07You should have made him take up dominoes.
0:45:07 > 0:45:09Oi! My tortoise is under that bed!
0:45:09 > 0:45:12- It went into early hibernation. - Well, he won't wake up.
0:45:12 > 0:45:16All tortoises are deaf. Now, come on. Shoo.
0:45:16 > 0:45:18Come on, out you go.
0:45:18 > 0:45:21GASPING
0:45:21 > 0:45:24This is happening too fast. I haven't even had my enema yet.
0:45:37 > 0:45:40Everything in order, Nurse?
0:45:40 > 0:45:43It would seem, Betty, as though your baby
0:45:43 > 0:45:45is presenting in the breech position.
0:45:45 > 0:45:47You what?
0:45:47 > 0:45:50It's coming out arse-first.
0:45:50 > 0:45:54- That's bad. - She's not quite fully dilated.
0:45:54 > 0:45:56So, there's time to transfer her to hospital,
0:45:56 > 0:45:59where she might feel a little more secure.
0:45:59 > 0:46:01I feel secure here! I want to stay in my own bed.
0:46:01 > 0:46:05And it's not like you're one of them slips of girls.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09Betty's had all hers delivered by Nonnatus, just like I had mine.
0:46:09 > 0:46:12Mum. Quick, get the bowl.
0:46:12 > 0:46:15RETCHING AND COUGHING
0:46:15 > 0:46:19She's moving on, Nurse. She's getting ready to want it out.
0:46:19 > 0:46:21I shall be back in precisely one moment.
0:46:44 > 0:46:46CHILDREN SHOUTING
0:46:48 > 0:46:50LAUGHTER
0:46:50 > 0:46:53Stop!
0:46:53 > 0:46:56I want all the children to go downstairs.
0:46:56 > 0:46:57Apart from Jack.
0:46:57 > 0:47:00Jack, I need you to go to the telephone and ring Nonnatus House.
0:47:00 > 0:47:04That's Poplar 459. Tell them the baby is breech.
0:47:04 > 0:47:05What's that mean?
0:47:05 > 0:47:08Just say "breech" to whoever answers the telephone.
0:47:08 > 0:47:12It's like the beach, the seaside. But it's got an R in it.
0:47:12 > 0:47:15Tell them we need additional support. Go!
0:47:19 > 0:47:24Betty. Betty, listen to me. I need you to change position.
0:47:24 > 0:47:26- What? - I need you with your bottom
0:47:26 > 0:47:29- right at the edge of the bed. - I can't move.
0:47:29 > 0:47:35I'm sorry. I know it's a rotten business. But I do know the form.
0:47:38 > 0:47:40BETTY GROANS
0:47:42 > 0:47:45CONGA MUSIC AND CHATTER
0:47:50 > 0:47:52PHONE RINGS
0:47:52 > 0:47:54Nonnatus House?
0:47:54 > 0:47:55Well done.
0:47:55 > 0:47:59I can feel your hand. It's shaking.
0:47:59 > 0:48:02It's excitement. I'm always the same.
0:48:09 > 0:48:13- Whoa! - Can I sit with you?
0:48:13 > 0:48:16I told them to keep on dancing.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19I told them your mum says the noise is a help.
0:48:20 > 0:48:23Now, Betty. I'm sure you want to push like billy-o.
0:48:23 > 0:48:26But I need this baby
0:48:26 > 0:48:29to come very, very slowly.
0:48:29 > 0:48:32So...pant.
0:48:32 > 0:48:35Pant, pant.
0:48:37 > 0:48:39Little push. GRUNTS
0:48:39 > 0:48:42Little push. Stop.
0:48:42 > 0:48:43GASPING
0:48:43 > 0:48:46Bravo.
0:48:46 > 0:48:49Little push. Little push.
0:48:49 > 0:48:52Little push. Stop.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54GASPING
0:48:54 > 0:48:56Bravo, Betty.
0:48:56 > 0:48:59Your baby's bottom is now delivered.
0:48:59 > 0:49:02Now,
0:49:02 > 0:49:05I need you to stay very still.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08Breathe very calmly...
0:49:10 > 0:49:12..as I hook my fingers...
0:49:14 > 0:49:16..over her legs
0:49:16 > 0:49:19and bring them into the world.
0:49:25 > 0:49:29Have you done it yet?
0:49:29 > 0:49:31- We're doing this together. - Yeah.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33Oh!
0:49:38 > 0:49:41Here, your hand's not shaking no more.
0:49:47 > 0:49:51Now, Betty, I'm going to wrap the baby in a towel.
0:49:54 > 0:49:57Her head is still inside the birth canal,
0:49:57 > 0:50:02and, if she becomes cold, she may gasp, which...would be unfortunate.
0:50:02 > 0:50:05GRUNTING
0:50:05 > 0:50:07Now, with the next contraction,
0:50:07 > 0:50:11you will feel the baby move, as I turn her just a quarter circle.
0:50:13 > 0:50:17That will help ease the shoulders out.
0:50:17 > 0:50:20GASPS AND GROANS
0:50:31 > 0:50:32Well done.
0:50:35 > 0:50:37CONGA MUSIC
0:50:46 > 0:50:48She should have called you direct.
0:50:48 > 0:50:51Doctor is always called for in the case of a breech.
0:50:51 > 0:50:54You called for me. Now we're both here.
0:50:54 > 0:50:58Now, Betty, I don't want you to move a muscle.
0:50:58 > 0:51:00GRUNTS
0:51:00 > 0:51:03I'm going to loosen my hand on Baby...
0:51:05 > 0:51:07..and let her body hang.
0:51:07 > 0:51:11SOBS AND GASPS
0:51:14 > 0:51:16BETTY WHIMPERS
0:51:17 > 0:51:19Oh. Oh.
0:51:22 > 0:51:26Not a muscle, Betty. Can we have quiet for the mother, please?
0:51:26 > 0:51:28- Why are you holding back? - It looks to me
0:51:28 > 0:51:31as though Nurse is managing things beautifully.
0:51:31 > 0:51:32BETTY GASPING
0:51:32 > 0:51:35Now, old thing.
0:51:35 > 0:51:36Push.
0:51:36 > 0:51:38LONG GROAN
0:51:41 > 0:51:44Keep it coming.
0:51:44 > 0:51:46Keep it coming.
0:51:46 > 0:51:48BETTY GROANING
0:51:48 > 0:51:50That's it.
0:51:50 > 0:51:54Keep it coming. Keep it coming.
0:51:54 > 0:51:55BETTY SOBBING
0:51:59 > 0:52:01BABY CRIES
0:52:03 > 0:52:05BETTY SOBS
0:52:10 > 0:52:12Hello.
0:52:12 > 0:52:15My baby.
0:52:16 > 0:52:21Come on, you big girl's blouse.
0:52:21 > 0:52:24It's only a baby being born.
0:52:24 > 0:52:27BABY GRIZZLES
0:52:31 > 0:52:33BABY CRYING
0:52:36 > 0:52:39You're all right.
0:52:42 > 0:52:44WHISPERS: Thank you.
0:52:53 > 0:52:56Gone to sleep already. Just like her dad.
0:53:36 > 0:53:38Kathleen!
0:53:40 > 0:53:41SOBS
0:53:41 > 0:53:43Kathleen!
0:53:44 > 0:53:47Kathleen!
0:53:47 > 0:53:48DOOR SLAMS
0:53:50 > 0:53:52Kathleen!
0:53:53 > 0:53:56Kathleen!
0:53:57 > 0:53:59Jenny Lee.
0:54:03 > 0:54:05Do you know where my baby is?
0:54:08 > 0:54:10She needs me to feed her!
0:54:19 > 0:54:21She has abscesses in both breasts!
0:54:21 > 0:54:24Isn't her mental agony enough for them?
0:54:24 > 0:54:27Babies are always placed for adoption in these cases.
0:54:27 > 0:54:29It's thought to be in the child's best interests.
0:54:29 > 0:54:33What about Mary's interests? She's the mother, she did not consent!
0:54:33 > 0:54:35Nurse Lee.
0:54:36 > 0:54:38She can't consent.
0:54:39 > 0:54:43She's only 15, still legally a child herself.
0:54:43 > 0:54:46It was a case of which child should we choose.
0:54:46 > 0:54:51How can a girl of 15 with no home, no education,
0:54:51 > 0:54:55no trade other than that of prostitution, bring up a baby?
0:54:55 > 0:54:57She gave up prostitution.
0:54:57 > 0:55:01She doesn't have that choice. And you're not the only one who's angry!
0:55:02 > 0:55:04HE SIGHS
0:55:07 > 0:55:10But you're young.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12You can be angry in the abstract,
0:55:12 > 0:55:15and our Lord will love you for your righteous indignation.
0:55:15 > 0:55:18Even while Mary's condemned as a sinner?
0:55:18 > 0:55:21God forgives. The Church forgives.
0:55:21 > 0:55:25The Church took her baby. I think it will kill her.
0:55:25 > 0:55:28Without a baby, Mary is employable.
0:55:28 > 0:55:31She could find love.
0:55:31 > 0:55:34She could have another child.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36And you think that will console her?
0:55:36 > 0:55:38It consoles me.
0:55:48 > 0:55:52Your milk ducts have become blocked, Mary.
0:55:52 > 0:55:54That's the cause of the infection.
0:55:54 > 0:55:57It hurts.
0:55:57 > 0:55:59It hurts like I never knew hurt could hurt.
0:56:02 > 0:56:05Reverend Mother has sent for the doctor.
0:56:05 > 0:56:08He'll prescribe you antibiotics.
0:56:08 > 0:56:11In the meantime, I'm going to bind your breasts
0:56:11 > 0:56:13so we can help stop the flow of milk.
0:56:13 > 0:56:17I don't want it stopped. It's Kathleen's.
0:56:25 > 0:56:27Can I use this?
0:56:42 > 0:56:44BELL CHIMING
0:56:45 > 0:56:49'Mary was never reunited with her child.
0:56:49 > 0:56:54'She might look for her, but her name would not be Kathleen any more.'
0:57:02 > 0:57:03# Lo-o-ove
0:57:05 > 0:57:11# Is a many-splendoured thing... #
0:57:11 > 0:57:15Jack became Chummy's devoted guardian.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18Never taunted again by any passer-by,
0:57:18 > 0:57:22she finally mastered the art of the bike.
0:57:24 > 0:57:28# ..Love is nature's way... #
0:57:28 > 0:57:30All right, Constable?
0:57:30 > 0:57:34Unused to such kindness, Chummy bought him a bicycle
0:57:34 > 0:57:37from her generous private funds.
0:57:40 > 0:57:41BABY CRIES
0:57:41 > 0:57:45Brenda McEntee delivered a daughter by the Caesarean section
0:57:45 > 0:57:48that could have saved each of her stillborn children.
0:57:51 > 0:57:55The National Health Service gave her the gift of motherhood.
0:57:55 > 0:58:02She called her child Grace Miracle.
0:58:02 > 0:58:04And she was perfect.
0:58:07 > 0:58:10- Jimmy? What are you doing here? - I'm in a tight spot, Jenny.
0:58:10 > 0:58:14Don't worry, Nurse Lee, I shan't go telling any tales,
0:58:14 > 0:58:18I had a few overnight guests of my own.
0:58:18 > 0:58:20- You look well. - And you. Very well.
0:58:20 > 0:58:23- As do you. - CLEARS THROAT
0:58:23 > 0:58:26It's not right, Mr Collett. They can't make you leave your own home.
0:58:26 > 0:58:30Don't cry over an old codger like myself.
0:58:30 > 0:58:32- I'm scared!- We're going to take good care of you.
0:58:32 > 0:58:34Don't worry.
0:58:34 > 0:58:37You don't understand! I'm scared!
0:58:37 > 0:58:39What are you so afraid of, Mrs Luce?
0:58:40 > 0:58:44# Once
0:58:44 > 0:58:49# On a high and windy hill
0:58:51 > 0:58:55# In the morning mist
0:58:55 > 0:58:58# Two lovers kissed
0:58:58 > 0:59:02# And the world stood still... #
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